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HORTI DI VEIO HAS CHOSEN PIÚINFORMA

Rome, July 2019

Another important success for PIÚINFORMA®! we have been chosen by HORTI DI VEIO a plant nursery located in northern Rome. It is a green oasis of about 10.000 square meters divided in different areas: exposition area, gardens and greenhouses. Now in its show room and shop HORTI DI VEIO has an additional important characteristic: the PIÚINFORMA® break room.

In the wide range of services, they have added PIÚINFORMA® our formatthat can be placed in companies and institutions where it is possible to put together the same format. Try to imagine this beautiful green area in your company.

HORTI DI VEIO has started immediately to embrace our format.

Sustainable vending machines are fundamental for the consumer’s life style as it also has advantages for the entire production chain: from the producer to the end user/final consumer.

We choose products with organic ingredients, organic coffee and healthy snacks and beverages with a reduced calories intake.

Therefore, we remove from vending machines sugary drinks and products full of preservatives.

Moreover, we choose products that are less likely to be found in usual vending machines, such as: dried fruit for those consumers who have different needs; such as: people with celiac disease, intolerant, diabetics and vegan.

Sustainable vending machines choose solutions with a low environmental impact that involve the packaging of the products as much as PET bottles in order to reduce plastic use.

Coffee cups are not made of plastic but are made with 100% of organic plastic with renewable raw materials.

Waste management is done thanks to the use of compacting machines or waste shredders that reduce up to 90% of their initial volume and also reward those consumers who do the right thing.

Then, in order to make everything more elegant everything is made with a 100% recyclable cardboard structure without plastic components or chemical colours.

We thank Horti di Veio for choosing us. The path has just begun but we know that we will accomplish our goal. Our proposal is 100% green and with products that have the 10+SANO®and 10+EQUO® trademark.

IT IS POSSIBLE TO GET RID OF PLASTIC AND WE MUST DO IT

According to a study published by the Environmental Science and Technology magazine and mentioned by the Guardian in june last year, it is estimated that every year we ingest around 50.000 microplastics that can increase twice as much if we also consider those that we inhale. Under attack is, once again, the food and all the plastic packaging that wraps it and contaminates it. The protagonists of this contamination are the plastic bottles where, according to the report of the Beverage Marketing Corporation, Italy is the country that owns the consumption record with 178 liters per citizen. We can see very easily how much plastic is “popular” when it comes to food and we can see it when we go groceries shopping: we can’t find salads that are not wrapped up in plastic and tomatoes that are not inside a plastic food container.

We can also find single artichokes or cucumbers that are wrapped up in plastic or snacks that are wrapped up in several plastic packaging even for single portion snacks.

Where does all the plastic go?

Of the 300 million tons of plastic that is produced every year, 8 million tons of plastic waste are poured into the oceans. It is as if every minute a truck full of plastic pours plastic into the ocean. The problem related to plastic waste is also present in the Mediterranean, where Legambiente’s Goletta Verde has measured “a density equal to 58 plastic waste per square kilometre of sea, with peaks of 62 in the Tyrrhenian Sea”.

The plastic in the sea not only is pollution but also a vehicle for microbes and other organisms that are added to chemical contaminants. This intercontinental geographic migration becomes a vehicle for the spread of polluted microplastics from potentially pathogenic invasive exotic species that expose us to the risk of losing biodiversity and new diseases.

What do we risk?

The use of plastic contaminates the food we eat, and it exposes us to the unaware ingestion of phthalate and bisphenol A, plasticisers and additives that are classified as endocrine disruptors. These substances have been found in the urines of Italian children and teenagers from the Institute of health thanks to the study LIFE PERSUADEDthat was able to connect the levels of plastics observed in urines with infant diseases (early puberty, thelarche and obesity). According to the data analysed by the researchers of the Institute of health the 100% of the children who underwent the analysis confirmed the presence of phthalates in urines and the 76% revealed the presence of Bisphenol A.

What to do?

It is necessary as soon as possible to raise awareness regarding the risks related to plastic and to find an opportunity to change in order to remove the plastic from the products that we consume every day at home, at work and at school. We have several possibilities to remove the plastic or to better manage it in order to avoid its irresponsible disposal. We can individually start changing our eating habits or involve more people in this journey in order to have a greater impact on environmental sustainability.

#PIUINFORMA and #FOODFORPLANET program

These programs allow any entity (company, university, schools etc) to reduce its environmental impact and to spread a healthy and sustainable life style inside the chosen entity.

The program goes around the food system that can be modified depending on health and sustainability criteria that allow to obtain concrete results: reduce the use of plastic, improve waste management, increase the consumption of healthy food and with less environmental impact, adopt a life style that is more in line with the World Health organization, to reduce and to improve wastefulness management, to develop and to spread a culture that promotes people’s and the planet’s health.

The program allows to create several steps where the implementation is certified, by adopting sustainable solutions that spread virtuous and contagious behaviours. Foodforplanet is a practical way to bring health to our planet and to people, by spreading the culture of good, healthy and sustainable food.

SAVE AND RECYCLE TO GIVE NEW LIFE

THE PROBLEM RELATED TO WASTE DISPOSAL

The management and the disposal of post-consumer waste are problems felt from many companies and institutions that have vending machines; here the right waste management is deficient, but if conveniently differentiated it becomes a resource.

Therefore, it is necessary to reduce the recovery chain and use of waste by working at the roots of the problem and abbreviate the traditional cycle which is necessary in order to transform them into a resource.

DIFFERENTIATED WASTE AS A SOLUTION

By applying the R&S program it is possible to differentiate and reduce up to 90% of the initial volume of the following products: cups, PET bottles and cans. These products are managed immediately after their use and directly in the break area.

It’s a system that:

Differentiates and separates the different types of waste

Reduces the volume even up to 90%

Saves a huge amount of energy

Allows to keep a clean and tidy break area

Rewards virtuous consumers with a direct cash back

CHARACTERISTICS

The R&S system is always present in PIÚINFORMA®’s break areas and manages and improves the differentiated collection. It’s an all-in-one solution in order to manage in a single break area the differentiated collection of cans and plastic bottles, caps, aluminum, cups, coffee stirrers thanks to the six holes for the different categories of waste.

It has been studied to be placed next to vending machines in order to create a complete break area where to eat and then to collect the waste and reduce its volume.

THE INCENTIVIZING RECYCLE

Thanks to PIÚINFORMA® R&S systems it is possible to collect huge quantities of material with an important economic value with lower costs than the traditional differentiated collection process.

Thanks to the alternative incentivizing recycle there are important earning possibilities with green marketing, namely actions that reward the ecological gesture.

PIÚINFORMA® R&S can also become an informative or advertising totem that doesn’t go unnoticed. It is possible to print the message on the surface of the structure or use a useful accessory: a color screen used in order to give information, show images, news and tv commercials.

THE SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CAMPAIGN SIGNED BY PIÚINFORMA

“DON’T WAIT, CHANGE, NOW”

We have decided to talk about food as it is a topic that involves everyone.

It has been defined campaign because it will last for a long time since that we have many topics to deal with: earth has a limited life and in 12 years it won’t have resources for 50% of the population.

PIÚINFORMA Association promotes and manages this campaign. The campaign starts with vending machines and collective catering with precise guide lines that allow companies and institutions to “recycle” these services in the main interest of the people and of the environment.

To do circular economy is to carry out healthy life styles! Is to reduce the production and the use of plastic! Is to think about the future of our children! Being sustainable today is not a choice but a duty.

Some numbers (referring to Italy)

Vending machines: 25 million consumptions are done using vending machines. No one before has ever worried about how much post-consumer waste there is and it is not managed, besides the huge amount of plastic that we can find in the packaging of snacks & food, several beverages, cups and other products.

There are more than 7 billion of plastic cups and more than 650 million of PET bottles… a huge amount of CO2 emissions that we can remove thanks to our behavior! Imagine to wholly replace the plastic used; we could save about 60 million tons of CO2.

Collective catering: at the end of 2018 the numbers of this market revealed that this sector is worth 6,5 billion of euros with 850 million of meals every year. Almost half of these meals can be found in school catering where there’s no possibility to choose what to eat and, even worse, the menus don’t suit the students’ needs.

Thinking about this huge amount of food it is estimated that 30/35% of the food served is trashed and not reused in other meals. Think about how much food waste there is when there are more than 1,5 billion of malnourished people in the world.

Also think about the dishes, trays and cutleries that, when they are washed, are used 1,275 billion liters of water and 255 million kWh of energy.

If we imagine to save 30% of food waste and to reduce the water and energy bill we could save millions of CO2.

How? Join our campaign like many companies and institutions have already done. Our staff will work for you and with you completely FREE OF CHARGE.

The RESULTS obtained are:

Significant reduction of the use of plastic

The complete removal of plastic cups and coffee stirrers

The complete removal of plastic accessories and cutleries

Increased the use of supply chain water instead of PET bottles

Increased possibility of finding “healthy” products

To increasingly differentiate and reduce post-consumer waste and monitor its management.

To support schools in the fulfillment of laboratories and practical activities regarding circular economy.

The use of the CO2 calculator managed by a school that is our partner.

MORE IT’S NOT POSSIBLE, NOW IT’S YOUR TURN, YOU ARE THE IMPROVEMENT

“Every system made of more elements can express itself at its best when these systems work correctly and are interconnected between them. In this case, the automatic distribution of food products, represents an educational system aimed at creating in people the capacity to make important choices in order to develop and strengthen healthy habits”.

During the last two years, PIÚINFORMA Association received several international recognitions, especially institutional ones, that add more and more value to our projects for the sustainability within Vending Machines.

In 2017 we have been selected as official partners of UNESCO MaB Programme (http://en.unesco.org/news/future-youth-biosphere-reserves). Furthermore, in June 2018 we supported the international initiative of the Global Network of Water Museums (www.watermuseums.net), coordinated by Centro Internazionale Civiltà dell’Acquaand recently approved by UNESCO International Hydrological Program. Then, we are engaged in several productive relationships with Public Administration and many Italian Ministers, developing constructive debates on sustainability and environmental impact of Vending Machines. Many companies and institutions have already chose us activating one of our formats, seeing them as the most sustainable ones. PIÚINFORMA will be indeed a certification soon.

Our motto is “from words to facts” and it is tuning out to be extremely successful, because sustainability is not something that you can just flaunt to act “nice” but it is instead a value that has always to generate concrete actions and projects.

At the moment, PIÚINFORMA’s program has been activated in 44 break areas within companies or institutions all over Italy and we have more of them waiting for our approval. We bring value to the whole sector – from producer, to managing institutions, to consumers – and we represent a sustainable example of business.

Taking part in our activities is simple, free and it brings benefits to everyone.

4 production plants, 23 operative offices, 1650 employees, 349 mln € revenue: these are just a few numbers of Salvagnini Spa, a famous Italian company that is leader in the production of metal-sheet manufacturing machines.
We are proud to communicate that from the 1stof August 2018, Salvagnini has one more feature: the PIÚINFORMA Vending Machine format.
In these moths, indeed, Savagnini group officialised the activation of our program within its headquarters in Sarego (VI). With decision, the group gives proofof a particular awareness and care towards the health and wellbeing of their employees and the whole environment.
The company entrust our team and know-how to improve life quality within its headquarter, sending a message to the market on both the goodness of their own values and the efficiency of PIÚINFORMA’s programme.
This goal represent for us not only another “trophy” to add to our collection: PIÚINFORMA Association has definitively demonstrated to be able to satisfy the needs of any kind of organisation, even a multinational one like Salvagnini Group.
We want to deeply thank the company for believing in us: we are just at the beginning of our trip, but we are sure that we will go far together towards increasingly ambitious and socially useful goals.

Collective food services’ equipment are a fundamental part within the services provided byPIÚINFORMA®. Our format can activated in every structure in which there is a collective food service, such as school, companies, offices, public institutions.

Our proposal is based on menus selected with the most attention, strictly following the rules of 10+SANO® e 10+EQUO® disciplinary to ensure a balanced nutrition. The furnishing is sustainable too, realised only with renewable sources,such as corn amid bamboo fibres.

Used furniture can be collected and disposed of thanks to dedicated machines that are also able to compost the waste.

The strong relationship between nutrition and itsimpact on the environment plays a central role within our proposal forcollective food services. We pay great attention to the origin of products, to their cooking and transportation methods.

Each meal is realised within a selected structure, where authorised personnel control its provenance, quality and transportation to ensure clients to receive an healthy and intact product. The structure will only have to heat them.

Thanks to a free water dispenser that distribute healthy and filtered water, the client will have the chance to avoid PET bottles, in favour ofglass ones.

The equipment is realised with renewable cardboard, made of corn amid and other fibres, without glues, chemicals or noxious substances.

To assure a complete care of the environment, there are no formaldehyde emissions and each material used is renewable. The structure contains a natural resin that makes it humidity-resistant, and it is made with an innovative system to be easy to assemble and dismantle. With the same materials we can also realise tables and chairs. We can also realise custom-made canteen.

Are you interested in our project for collective food services? Contact us!

Thanks to its format, PIÚINFORMA®is the perfect partner to realise a sustainable break area, in which conventional products coexist with healthy ones. The great part of our products comes from biological agriculture and are certified by 10+SANO® e 10+EQUO® quality marks. Ethics is always combined with health, and ecology becomes a synonym of freshness: also when we are taking a break, we should think about the impact that we are having on our health and on the environment.

Dispensers within our sustainable break areas can also contain fresh products, that means every product that need to be conserved at a temperature between 2C° and 10C°. The freshness of a product is strictly linked to its capacity to bring benefits to our health (foe example in UK only products with an expiration date within 7 days are considered fresh).

Within this category, we find fresh fruit but also many smoothies and yogurts. Only if you keep those products in a proper place you will benefit from their natural properties! Our Scientific Committee is very rigid and severe on this requirement.

Within our sustainable break areas one of the main protagonist is surely the hot-beverages eco dispenser. You can choose between a conventional coffee and a biological one, combined with no-added-sugar tea, low fat chocolate, vegan milk and an exclusive cereal & liquorice drink. Every product is foreseen to be consumed using MaterBi® cardboard glasses, completely bio-degradable and made with renewable raw materials. Also the deliciousness is important for us: for example, our biological coffee has a rich and elegant taste, thanks to a perfect mix of Jamaican and South American coffee beans.

Every equipment is realised with renewable cardboard, made of corn amid and other fibres, without glues, chemicals or noxious substances.

To assure a complete care of the environment, there are no formaldehyde emissions and each material used is renewable. The structure contains a natural resin that makes it humidity-resistant, and it is made with an innovative system to be easy to assemble and dismantle.

When you decide to choose one of our formats, our staff will manage every step of their starting process, assuring you a constant assistance and consultancy.

In order to get eco-friendly our vending machines, first of all we select products coming from biological agriculture and fair-trade production with the certification of 10+SANO® e 10+EQUO® quality marks, but there is more. In fact, we also take great care to every accessory that we offer: this is the reason why our glasses are 100% bio-degradable, made in Mater-Bi bio-plastic. They can be recycled within organic waste, and they are made of raw materials coming from reneable sources such as corn amid or sugarcane.

With our eco-friendly vending machines you have the chance to design a pleasant break area, with low environmental impact and low energy consumption. Not only snacks and beverages, but also every accessory is carefully selected in order to offer the highest quality and best services to our clients.

Every format designed by PIÚINFORMA is created to satisfy the needs of every client and consumer. Each vending machine has a dedicated are for healthy product in which every category is highlighted with a specific colour to facilitate its identification.

Every equipment is realised with renewable cardboard, made of corn amid and other fibres, without glues, chemicals or noxious substances.

To assure a complete care of the environment, there are no formaldehyde emissions and each material used is renewable. The structure contains a natural resin that makes it humidity-resistant, and it is made with an innovative system to be easy to assemble and dismantle.

ONLY THE BEST FOR YOU AND YOUR CLIENTS.

Are you interested in one of our eco-friendly vending machines? Contact us!